<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Nathan C. Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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Does anyone use or know of a really generic time tracking application for the LAMP stack. I'm looking for something barebones, primitive that can record projects and then keep track of time spent on them and perhaps generate some kind of report.<br>
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Thanks for any pointers.<br>
<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Hi, the technique we use can probably be applied to lots of systems. We have a tag for days spent on a project, but it could be hours spent as easily. So for example, if we spend 4 days then we give an issue a tag of sp-4. Half a day is sp-0.5.<br>
<br>Then we use scripts to query the API of our software for closed tasks in a certain time range and use the sp-* tags to figure how long it took.<br><br>Since tags are such a common feature, if this workflow works for you then you can choose a tool you like for other reasons and then bolt this in on top. We use <a href="http://launchpad.net">launchpad.net</a> but I'll bet you could use github, trac, wordpress or whatever.<br>
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